Males and females use different distal cues in a virtual environment navigation task

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 351-360

  Sandstrom, Noah J ^a   Kaufman, Jordy ^a   A Huettel, Scott ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Sex differences; Spatial ability; Virtual environments; Water maze; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0031834939     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00002-0     Document Type: Article

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